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The advance in white wood has cheeked the 

 demand — if it has not entirely stopped it in 

 some sections of New England. Consumers are 

 using in its place lower grades of cypress, coun- 

 ty' pine and lower grades of hardwood, and 

 as the trade has found that these woods can be 

 used as substitutes, it is possible that there 

 may never be the same demand for white wood 

 in New England as in the past. The decrease 

 in the supply of that wood will very probably 

 parallel the tailing off in demand. If a grade 

 of standard choiceness in inch, ones and twos, 

 should in price descend to .|4.'), it would proba- 

 bly result in increasing the demand. 



Detroit. 



The market for hardwood has been a little 

 ijviiet the last few days, but it is the normal 

 (cmdition at this season of the year and the 

 dealers and manufacturers without exceptioit 

 express confidence in the prospects for a good 

 iiusiuess year. Stocks of dry lumber are not 

 large and prices are firmly held. 



The assertion has repeatedly been made that 

 there is more money in the hardwood industry 

 of Michigan than that derived from pine. This 

 may or not be so, but there is some force to the 

 assertion since the conditions of lumbering have 

 changed in the matter of economizing the tim- 

 ber and getting all there is out of it. In the 

 old pine days the timber was wasted and 

 slaughtered and what would represent fortunes 

 today w'as fed to fires or left to rot in the 

 woods. 



The hardwood industry of Michigan is of com- 

 I>aratively recent growth. There were, of course, 

 doings in oak at an early day when the forests 

 were skinned for square timber and oak staves, 

 but there W'as little doing in the ordinary hard- 

 wood lines until within the last twenty years. 

 \Mien pine began to become scarce the attention 

 of lumbermen was turned to hardwood and more 

 than five hundred million feet of this timber 

 is now cut annually in this state, an industry 

 of magnitude in itself. When it is known that 

 there are not more than half a dozen sawmills, 

 in lower Michigan cutting white pine exclusively 

 at this time the importance of the hardwood in- 

 dustry is more readily conceded. Last year 

 only one sawmill in the Saginaw valley manu- 

 factured white pine exclusively, whereas in 

 1882 there was manufactured there 1,011,000.- 

 UOO feet of pine lumber. 



Last year there was manufactured in the 

 Saginaw valley 42,455,028 feet of hardwood 

 lumber, more in fact than there was of pine or 

 bcinlock. 



Liverpool. 



.\lfred Dobell & Co. of Liverpool, England, 

 in thsir January report of the timber market 

 say the arrivals d.uring the last month have 

 lieen on a restricted scale. .\lthough the con- 

 sumption has been small and prices still leave 

 but a narrow margin of profit, some improve- 

 ment is discernible and the year opens with 

 more hopeful anticipation. 



In cak the round southern logs importation 

 ccntinues moderate. Demand quiet at unchanged 

 prices, and is .coutined to the best description of 

 logs. Square logs — the hewn stock is moving 

 siowly and further shpments cannot be recom- 

 li'endcd at present. The best quality of cofliu 

 lengths only should be shipped of lialtimore 

 waney legs, as the demand is slow. Arrivals 

 luive slackened in wagon planks, but the stock 

 is very heavy. A poor demand prevails and it 

 is limited almost entirely to prime planks of 

 good specifications. 



Walnut — I-ogs of all grades have arrived more 

 freely, and prices generally are slightly easier. 

 In planks and boards there is a fair inquiry for 

 ]iiime planks, l>ut boat-ds are in limited request. 

 Of satin walnut only prime well-.seasoned boards 

 are inquired for. 



Whitewood — Logs have arrived moderately. 

 The prime parcels have sold well owing to the 

 scarcity of that description, but medium and 

 lower grades are not in demand. Planks and 

 boards continue to arrive moderately, but prices 

 remain unsatisfactory. 



Round logs — Imports of ash have been light, 

 as the shipping season is not yet in full swing. 



The demand for teak continues quiet. The 

 import is very liglit and prices show signs of 

 stiffening. Little hickory has been received, al- 

 though prime logs have found a ready market 

 at good prices. I'rices for staves remain un- 

 changed. 



Cedar — Tlie small quantity of Mexican offered 

 brought full rates. The market is open for large- 

 sized wood of mellow character. 



Rosewood — The stock consists of a small par- 

 cel of East India wood. The demand is limited. 



Satinwood — Only large-sized wood is wanted, 

 which would sell at full values, but small logs are 

 quite neglected. 



Lignum-vitae — There is a good enquiry for 

 straight and fresh, thin-sapped pieces of good 

 lengths. First arrivals of such would bring very 

 full values. 



The import last mouth of Mahogany was as 

 fellows : 



African — 19G6 logs, of which 430 logs were 

 from Lagos, 548 logs from Banin, and 71 logs 

 from Sapeli : Tabasco — 128 logs ; Cuban-^82S 

 logs : St. Domingo — 20 logs ; Panama — 205 logs. 

 The public sales held last month, three in num- 

 ber, were well attended by buyers from all dis- 

 tricts. Competition was keen, and full prices 

 were realized for all the wood offered. Upward 

 of one million and three-quarters feet were sold 

 under the hammer. African — Lagos was in 

 strong request, and good prices were obtained. 

 Benin was eagerly competed for, and a further 

 improvement was noticeable in values. The en- 

 tire stocks were cleared. Sapeli was well com- 

 peted for at improved rates. .\xim. Assinie — ■ 

 the limited quantity on offer sold well, figured 

 logs bringing high prices. Niger — The market 

 is still bare of stock. Gaboon was in little bet- 

 ter request, and the wood offered found buyers at 

 fair prices. Mexican — The cargo from Tecolutia. 

 mostly small-sized wood, brought full values, and 

 the cargo of Tabasco from Laguna realized very 

 good prices. Honduras — There are numerous en- 

 quiries for Belize wood, and first arrivals would 

 probably bring extreme prices. Guatemalan — Xo 

 import and no stock. First arrivals, if in sound 

 condition, would sell well. Xicaraguan — There 

 have been no arrivals, t^olombian — A small ship- 

 ment from the continent brought its full value. 

 Panama — A small consignment has arrived, 

 which will be offered shortly. Cuban — The im- 

 portations contained a large proportion of small 

 wocd, which was difiicult to sell, but good sized 

 logs brought full rates. The wood withdrawn at 

 auction was afterward sold by private treaty, 

 leaving the market hare. St. Domingo — There 

 is a good demand for logs of large size. Stocks 

 are exhausted. 



Buffalo. 



Thu'e is a steady though slow improvement 

 in the hardwood lumber trade and the dealers 

 are predicting a good year, with profits well up 

 to the demand. This means that the hardwood 

 luBibermen are for the most part not mere 

 .iflbbers, as the white-pine dealers are, but cut 

 a great part of their stock and are therefore not 

 dependent on the demand of the mill man for 

 all the profits, as is sometimes the case in pine. 

 There is not much change in the range of prices. 

 Occasionally there is a report of a little more 

 for plain oak. which is the most active of any- 

 thing now, and tlie movement of quartered is 

 somewhat stronger. Maple Is doing better and 

 is send'ng the dealers into the P-eimsylvania 

 woods after more stock, especially thick. Chest- 

 nut is moving again and basswood will start 

 soon, it is thought, though it has had a long 

 quiet period. Birch sells well and there is a 



